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MINNESOTA SMOKERS' CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE STATE ECONOMY - FY2002
24 October 2002
Posted on 10/24/2002 7:57:07 AM PDT by SheLion
MINNESOTA SMOKERS' CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE STATE ECONOMY - FY2002
Minnesota smokers comprise only 22.2%1 of the adult population in the state. Here is what they already pay because they choose to buy a legal product:
Smokers Pay Excise Taxes2 $169,427,723
Smokers Pay Sales Taxes2 $ 77,623,456
Smokers Pay Tobacco Settlement Payments3 $362,742,011
$609,793,190
Smokers Economic/Tax Profile
- Income
- Minnesota smokers median income 20011 $42,831
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- Minnesota State Tax Liability for Median Income Smoker4
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- Annual state income tax liability for a couple $ 1,789
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- Annual state income tax liability for a couple with two children $ 1,390
- Smoker Excise Tax/Sales Tax/Tobacco Settlement Payments Liability5
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- Total average paid per Minnesota smoker in excise and sales taxes $ 303
- Cost per Minnesota smoker for settlement payments to the state $ 445
Total annual payments to Minnesota per smoker $ 748
Minnesota Smoker Facts6
- Total smokers payments in FY2002 to Minnesota were more than ten times larger than estimated FY2002 state alcohol excise taxes of $59 million.
- Smokers payments were 21 times larger than estimated FY2002 lottery revenues of $28.8 million.
- Smokers payments were larger than estimated FY2002 motor vehicle sales tax revenues of $418 million.
- Smokers payments were twice as large as statewide estimated FY2002 property taxes of $296 million.
- Total smokers payments for FY2002 were large enough to support Minnesotas FY2002 budgeted amounts for: Family and early childhood education ($262.8 million); OR the Department of Corrections ($400 million); OR aid to local governments ($413.6 million); OR the Pollution Control Agency ($124.3 million) AND the Zoological Garden ($19.2 million) AND Minnesota District Courts ($118.5 million) AND aid to police and fire departments ($62.3 million) combined.
- In 1997, smokers provided 8,321 jobs that paid an additional $13.8 million to the state in personal and corporate income taxes.7
CIGARETTES DONT PAY TAXES MINNESOTA SMOKERS DO!! 1
Centers for Disease Controls Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2001 2
Orzechowski & Walker, Arlington, Virginia; latest estimates from state revenue department 3
PriceWaterhouseCooper 4
State annual income tax liability from PayBreeze software of General Programming, Inc., San Jose, California, which utilizes the Exact Calculation Method.
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U.S. Census Bureau, 2001 state population estimate and Centers for Disease Controls Behavioral Risk Surveillance System, 2001 6
Tax and Budget Comparisons are from the State of Minnesota, Department of Finance, "Consolidated Fund Statement, FY 2000 2005, End of 2002 Legislative Session," July 15, 2002, online at
http://www.budget.state.mn.us/budget/summary/2002/consolidated_funds.pdf . Expenditures and revenues reflect budgeted amounts as enacted in May of 2002.
7
American Economics Group, Inc., The U.S. Tobacco Industry in 1997: Its Economic Impact in the States.
TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Culture/Society; Government; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: antismokers; butts; cigarettes; individualliberty; michaeldobbs; niconazis; prohibitionists; pufflist; smokingbans; taxes; tobacco
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posted on
10/24/2002 7:57:07 AM PDT
by
SheLion
To: *puff_list; Just another Joe; Great Dane; Max McGarrity; Tumbleweed_Connection; maxwell; ...
PUFF
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posted on
10/24/2002 7:58:31 AM PDT
by
SheLion
To: SheLion
Are you a smoker living in Minnesota?
To: SheLion
If you have a smokers ping list...put me on it pls :)
To: SheLion
If states did away with alcohol and cigarette taxes the states would be in a lot worse trouble than they are already.
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posted on
10/24/2002 8:04:19 AM PDT
by
Piquaboy
To: SheLion
Seems to me that the answer is to stop smoking. You deprive the state and the Feds of the revenue, and stop breathing your foul stench into my air.
That way, all of us win except the bureaucrats.
Sweet.
6
posted on
10/24/2002 8:04:37 AM PDT
by
Illbay
To: BureaucratusMaximus
If you have a smokers ping list...put me on it pls :) Gotcha added! Thanks!
7
posted on
10/24/2002 8:24:49 AM PDT
by
SheLion
To: *all
8
posted on
10/24/2002 8:29:21 AM PDT
by
SheLion
To: ReadMyMind
Are you a smoker living in Minnesota? No. I'm in Maine.
9
posted on
10/24/2002 8:30:05 AM PDT
by
SheLion
To: Illbay
Seems to me that the answer is to stop smoking. You deprive the state and the Feds of the revenue, and stop breathing your foul stench into my air.That way, all of us win except the bureaucrats.
Sweet.
10
posted on
10/24/2002 8:33:27 AM PDT
by
SheLion
To: Illbay
and stop breathing your foul stench into my air. `sniff `sniff
It that you?
11
posted on
10/24/2002 8:35:59 AM PDT
by
SheLion
To: Illbay
Seems to me that the answer is to stop smoking. I will smoke until my dying day just to piss people like you off!
and
Smokers United
12
posted on
10/24/2002 8:38:31 AM PDT
by
SheLion
To: SheLion
The really ironic thing about smoking is that it tends to kill people before they can rack up huge "late-in-life" health care costs, in effect saving society money. Phillip Morris tried this argument in Czechoslovakia and got their asses handed to them, not on the facts, but on the emotional reaction to the "horror" of pointing out the financial benefits of killing people's mommies.
I got this from an epidemiologist who is not a smoker and is not in favor of smoking. She admits it somewhat sheepishly.
To: SheLion
Seems to me that the answer is to stop smoking. With that kind out argument...we should stop drinking and buying new cars too. (sheesh)
To: Illbay
Haven't you learned anything yet????
15
posted on
10/24/2002 8:41:57 AM PDT
by
Gabz
Comment #16 Removed by Moderator
To: All
I believe in the right for someone to smoke, but beyond that, tobacco is a health menace and a killer. I won't argue that smokers pay more than their share of taxes, but anyone who is familiar with the effects of tobacco on the human body, and it's subsequent drain on the health care system, will not be beating the drum so loudly on this of all issues. If the taxes bother you, quit smoking! Not an easy task, I know from direct experience, but you do have an option to stop.....
17
posted on
10/24/2002 9:17:29 AM PDT
by
Malcolm
To: Malcolm
If the taxes bother you, quit smoking!Sounds like excellant advice for our forefathers, eh?
If you don't like the taxes, quit drinking tea!
But don't try to change things in any manner other than that.
To: Malcolm
Exactly, what is the "subsequent drain on the health care system"? Seriously. We've been served that mantra but it never provides statistics nor does it compare and contrast those against smoker vs. non-smoker life-time consumption of "benefits" in terms of Social Security benefits paid, and all health care benefits utilized. There was once even an argument that smokers cheated society because their habit caused them to die before they could contribute their full, fair share of taxes to government.
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posted on
10/24/2002 10:23:58 AM PDT
by
Tucson
To: BureaucratusMaximus
With that kind out argument...we should stop drinking and buying new cars too. (sheesh) Thank you!
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posted on
10/24/2002 5:21:41 PM PDT
by
SheLion
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